Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
JOHN DEWEYThere’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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